DRYOSCOPUS CUBLA 349 
Tadejemulka, Katyinwaha (Pease); Somaliland—Mt. Darro 
(Gillett) ; Swdan—Baro River (Zaphiro), Dem Suleiman in 
Bahr el Ghazal (Bohndorf). 
D. nyanse: British East Africa—Guaso Nyiro (Dela- 
mere), Ravine (Jackson) ; Belgian Congo—Ruwenzori (Ruwen- 
zori Expedition), Mombattu country (Alexander); French 
Congo—Shari River near Lake Chad (Alexander). 
In Mr. Jackson’s collection there is a large series from 
Entebbe, Katwe, Busoga, Eldoma, Nandi and Lumbwe, all 
localities in Uganda or its confines, and all referable to 
D. m. nyanse. 
Dryoscopus cubla. 
Lanius cubla, Shaw, Gen. Zool. vii. p. 328 (1809) Knysna ex Levaill. 
Dryoscopus cubla, Gadow, Cat. B. M. viii. p. 148 (1883); Shelley, B. 
Afr. i. No. 742 (1896); Stark and Sclater, Faun. S. Afr. B. ii. p. 26, 
pl. nesting (1901); Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 592 (1903) ; Shortridge, 
Ibis, 1904, p. 182 Pondoland; L. HE. Taylor, J. 8. Afr. Orn. Union 
1906, p. 66 Irene; C. H. Taylor, ibid. 1907, p. 19 Amsterdam ; 
Haagner and Ivy, ibid. p. 89 Albany; Swynnerton, Ibis, 1907, 
p. 47, 1908, p. 51 Gazaland; W. Sclater, Ibis, 1911, p. 286. 
Thamnophilus leucopygus, Lawr. Ann. Lyc. N.Y. viii. p. 401 (1867) 
« New Granada” (error); Salvin, Ibis, 1874, p. 316. 
Dryoscopus cubla occidentalis, Neum. J. f. O. 1899, p. 413 Angola. 
Le Cubla, Levaill. Ois. d’Afr. ii. p. 89, pl. 72 (1799). 
Subspecies a. Dryoscopus hamatus. 
Dryoscopus hamatus, Hartl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 106 Unyamwesi ; Gadow, 
Cat. B. M. viii. p. 142 (1883) ; Neave, Manch. Mem. li. No. 10, p. 73 
(1907) N.E. Rhodesia ; Ogilvie-Grant, Ibis, 1908. p. 291 N.W. Lake 
Tanganyika. 
Dryoscopus cubla hamatus, Reichen. Vég. Afr. ii. p. 594 (1903) ; Stoehr 
and Sel. J. S. Afr. Orn. Union, 1906, p. 95 N.H. Rhodesia ; Neave, 
Ibis, 1910, p. 227 Katanga; Reichen. Deutsch Zentr. Afr. Exped. iii. 
p. 313 (1910); Sjéstedt, Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. Vég. p. 115 (1910). 
Dryoscopus cubla suahelicus, Neum. J. f. O. 1899, p. 414; Bannerman, 
This, 1910, p. 690 Kilimanjaro. 
Adult male. Upper half of head, hinder half of neck, upper back, upper 
tail-coverts and the tail, black with a bluish gloss; tail with a very narrow 
